Emily and I watched as Juana sauntered out of the room with her stupid grin."What was that about?" Emily asked.I sighed. "Nothing, she's just trying to get on my nerves.""You okay?" Emily asked looking concerned."It's just stress," I said dejectedly. "Ethan found out about Anthony and me."Emily's eyes widened. "What? How? Is he going to tell anybody?"I bit my lip. "I'm not really sure. He wants to meet Anthony. He said if Anthony can prove he really is good, then he won't tell on me. Don't worry about that though, I'll deal with it. He doesn't know anything about you. And, if a miracle happens and he does end up thinking Anthony's good, maybe I'll be able to tell him about you.""That'd be nice," she said smiling. "But, honestly, I'm not going to get my hopes up.""Yeah, I know, me either."The boys walked back into the room. "Hey there, you're out of your room. Do you need anything?" Eric asked Emily. He had a giant grin on his face.She shook her head, but gave him a small smi

Juana looked a bit too happy as she walked out of the house with her head held high."Do you think we need to watch out for her?" Mark asked, ending the awkward silence that had followed her departure.Anthony shrugged. "I'll keep an eye on her, but she just likes to hear herself talk. I don't think she'll actually do anything. She's going to want a place to stay in the next three decades, I'm sure."It was the first time I'd ever heard Anthony mention that far into the future. It was an unimportant thing to be considering in the middle of all the chaos, but I couldn't help myself. I wasn't used to thinking very far into the future. Hunters lived day to day. I could never be one hundred percent sure that I was going to survive any hunting expedition. Up till now, that day to day attitude was what I'd applied to my relationship with Anthony.How would it work for us? Sure I was immortal too, maybe I was more fragile than he was, but I still had the potential to live forever. Hunters gr

"What are you talking about?" I asked them. "Juana's been with you guys for over a month. You've been watching her every step. How can she have anything to do with my mom?""After you left I followed Juana," Anthony explained. "We couldn't just let her leave. Knowing her, she would be bound to do something stupid. I caught her talking on the phone with your mother.""Wait what?" I was growing more confused by the second. Everything they were saying to me wasn't adding up."Your mother's name is Ava, right?" Anthony confirmed. I nodded. "Well, Juana spoke to her on her cell phone. She said, 'Ava, you might want to cooperate with us or else your daughter may have some serious problems.'""I'm assuming she means me, when she said 'daughter,'" I groaned, feeling even worse when they nodded."She said 'us,' now we just have to figure out who she's working with," Eric told me."Lucas," I whispered. Things were starting to make sense in my head."Lucas?!" the three brothers exclaimed in unis

I couldn't make myself move for the first few minutes while I was back at the house. Hunters know to expect death, and if Ethan had died any other way, if Anthony hadn't been involved I might have been able to deal with the pain. I couldn't even collect my thoughts to figure out who I was supposed to call. Nicole? Ethan's parents?I wasn't ready to face any of them. I wouldn't be able to deal with the disgust from Nicole or the guilt I would get from seeing his parents. My own selfishness disgusted me. Here Ethan was dead because of me, and all I could worry about was my self.I finally worked up the nerve to get out my cell phone and call someone. The ideal person would've been my mother. I could use her no nonsense, methodical attitude right now, but she obviously wasn't an option so I settled for Cheryl.My throat was dry, and I was gasping as I tried to explain in broken sentences what happened. When Cheryl got the gist of it, she immediately teleported back to the house where she

I ended up falling asleep while I was up in my room. When I woke up my alarm clock read six AM. I was surprised that no one had come to talk to me. I was even more surprised that I'd managed to sleep for as long as I had. Although, I really couldn't imagine who would even want to see me. I did think that Nicole would come try to find out what had happened though, but she was probably busy dealing with our mother's disappearance.I remained in bed and stared up at the ceiling. The numbness I had initially felt after the disaster was beginning to wear off. Reality was starting to crash down, and I realized that my biggest problems were not how miserable I was because of my breakup with Anthony. The Administratio would not be lenient or understanding and they were not above the death sentence.It bothered me to no end that breaking up with Anthony was affecting me this much. I was not the girl who cried over her boyfriend. Besides, it had been me who broke up with him, not the other way